Solutions

Low-cost Roaming

The Blueslice Advanced Low Cost Roaming solutions enable mobile service providers to offer new roaming features to their subscribers and significantly reduce, even eliminate, roaming charges. These features are integrated into the HLR application and are therefore completely transparent to the other network elements and to the end-user.

The powerful, patent-pending Multi IMSI/MSISDN association engine allows a end-user to have a single subscription in the ngHLR 3000™ containing multiple IMSIs (identities) and MSISDNs (phone numbers) in several countries or area codes. This gives the user several identities, making him look "local" instead of "roaming," eliminating long distance charges for mobile terminating calls. Upon registering to a GSM network, the application on the SIM card or handset, in conjunction with the HLR, automatically selects the local IMSI for reduced roaming and optimal long distance charges. Local number pooling allows the HLR to pool IMSIs and MSISDNs for various less-often-visited countries and dynamically assign them to roaming users.

With Blueslice roaming, mobile service providers can now provide technology-based cost reduction, instead of relying on limited arbitrage arrangements, to offer a larger home network, cross geographic borders, and eliminate mobile subscribers' cautious roaming behaviours.